Williams was just talkin' to me and I know all about his buyin' it and where it's goin'." He repeated the conversation with the great man.

Captain Sol did not interrupt.

He smoked on, and a frown gathered and deepened as he listened.
"Humph!" he said, when his friend had concluded.

"Humph! Sim, do you have any idea what--what Olive Seabury will do when she has to go ?" Phinney glanced at him.

It was the first time in twenty years that he had heard Solomon Berry mention the name of his former sweetheart.